Une Lange Universelle (Universal Language)
Feature Narrative, Experimental
Director: Matthew Rankin
89 mins
Synopsis
Two women find frozen cash, try to retrieve it. A tour guide leads confused tourists around Winnipeg sites. A man quits his job, visits his mother. Storylines intertwine surreally as identities blur in a disorienting comedy.
F E A T U R E F I L M S
Production
Metafilms
Festival
2024 - Directors' Fortnight, Cannes Film Festival - Audience Award
2024 - Toronto International Film Festival
La Garde Blanche (The White Guard)
Feature Documentary
Director: Julien Elie
109 mins
Synopsis
The White Guard is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Julien Élie and released in 2023. A followup to his 2018 film Dark Suns, the film delves further into the issue of violence in Mexico, profiling the collusion between multinational industry, organized crime and the government of Mexico to expropriate land and exploit people and natural resources.
Production
Metafilms and Cinema Palmopan
Festival
2023- RIDM - Magnus Isacsson Award and Student Jury Award
Caiti Blues
Feature Documentary
Director: Justine Harbonnie
84mins
Synopsis
Caiti Lord has a beautiful voice that she plans to use to do more than sell cherry cocktails. As madness surges in the United States, in a most disturbing absurd manner, Caiti is overtaken by a growing sense of suffocation. So Caiti sings. The blues.
Production
Cinquième Maison and Sister Productions - Nellie Carrier and Julie Paratian
Festival
2023 - ACID CANNES
2023 - HotDOCS - Special Juy Prize for Canadian Feature Documentary Film
2023- Vision Du Réel
Cette Maison
Hybrid Documentary
Director: Miryam Charles
75mins
Synopsis
Bridgeport, January 17, 2008. A teenage girl is found hanged in her room. While everything points to suicide, the autopsy report reveals something else. Ten years later, the director and cousin of the teenager examine the past causes and future consequences of this unsolved crime. Like an imagined biography, the film will explore the relationship between the security of the living space and the violence that can jeopardize it.
Production
Félix Dufour-Laperrière (Embuscade Films)
Festival
2022- Berlinale 72 - Forum
2022 - ART of the Reel
2022 - HotDocs
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S H O R T F I L M S
Fantas
Short fiction
Director: Halima Elkhatabi
12 mins
Synopsis
Worlds and genres collide one summer afternoon as a young woman and her horse make a surprising and eventful odyssey in this richly cinematic drama by Montreal's Halima Elkhatabi
Production
Les Films de L'autre
Festival
2024 - Toronto International Film Festival - Short Cuts 1
Sing Me a Lullaby
Short Documentary
Director: Tiffany Hsiung
29mins
Synopsis
In 1965, Tiffany’s mother was separated from her parents. She never saw them again. 40 years later, Tiffany flies to Taiwan to try & find her grandparents - with just two names scribbled on a napkin.
Production
Golden Nugget Productions and CBC Gem
Festival
2022 - Toronto International Film Festival - Share Her Journey award
2020 - TIFF Top 10 Short Films
2020 - NYC DOC - Best Documentary Short Film
2021 - Canadian Screen Awards - Best Short Documentary
THE NEW YORKER SHOWCASE
Clebs (Mutts)
Short Documentary
Director: Halima Ouardiri
18mins
Synopsis
The animals’ brown, beige, white and black coats blend into the ochre earth and sunbaked walls. After the calm of rest hour, a deafening cacophony breaks out at feeding time, as the dogs bark excitedly. In a stray-dog refuge in Agadir, Morocco, more than 750 animals find help and protection while awaiting adoption. Each day is the same as the last, the only excitement provided by mealtime. Empathetic and alert to subtleties of light and texture, Halima Ouardiri observes the rhythm of the animals’ lives, their suspended existence paralleling the far more tragic waiting endured by millions of human beings in search of a new home.
Production
Producer: Halima Ouardiri
Festival
2020 - Berlinale 70 - Generation 14+ Crystal Bear
Special Prize of the Generation 14plus International Jury for the Best Short Film
2020 - RENDEZ-VOUS QUEBEC CINEMA - Best Documentary Short Film
2019 - FICFA - Prix La Vague for Best Short Film
2019 - RIDM Official Selection